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Friday, 5 July 2013

The Perfect Road Trip

The Perfect Road Trip - With Family

My mama and mami live in
Saharanpur. When we were kids, I (Aditya) and my brother (Abhimanyu) used to go
with mom to Saharanpur every year and stay there and then dad used to come over
the weekend and then we used to leave. We had lots of fun over there playing
cricket, cycling in the morning and playing Video games at the Video game parlor
with cousins. My mama has two sons Sandeep(elder) and Shiv(younger) who are married
now. We used to go by Dehradun Shatabdi and then by car, when we bought one. Travelling by car was more fun as we used to
have snacks and cold drinks on the way, played cards, had lunch at Ganesh Vaishno
Dhaba. It was now, six years since we went to Saharanpur, cousins used to call
up and say come over to Saharanpur but we got busy in work, we both got married
and we didn’t had time to go. One evening all four of us were sitting (Me,
Bhaiya, Bhabi(Saloni) and my wife (Mansi)) and started planning a road trip. I
remembered our road trips to Saharanpur and suggested them. After a long time span
of six years it would be a perfect and memorable trip. We have our own business
so holiday was not a big problem. I told bhaiya it would be the first trip of Mansi
and Saloni bhabi to Saharnpur. All of us agreed and started the preparations
for the trip. My mom and dad’s anniversary was after three days i.e., on the 9th
May. So we also planned to celebrate it in Saharanpur. Bhabi and Mansi went to
the market and bought chips and cold drinks. I charged my Digital Camera and
bought a new deck of playing cards. I remembered that there are too many
villages on the way and that place stinks too much, so I also bought an ‘AmbiPur’ for Car. The car we took was Ertiga.
The route to Saharanpur via SH 57 is around 170 km and takes around 5 hours to
reach. We had to leave at 7’o clock in the morning so we slept early,
around 10’o clock after having our dinner. Next morning i.e., on 7th
May 2013 early in the morning around 7.30 a.m we left from home after having tea
and bread toast. Mom prepared her special Puri
Chole forthe breakfast.
Everybody was excited, especially Mansi and Saloni bhabi as they were going for
the first time. We were total seven people Mom, Dad, Me, Bhaiya, Bhabi and
Mansi and Driver. After, crossing Delhi border bhaiya said ‘Chal Bhai Ady(my
nickname) koi movie laga de’. I had Oh my God movie with me , which I played . After, crossing Tronica
City we had Chips and Cold Drinks toppled with movie was an awesome combination. After, we crossed Baraut, Dad said ‘Ab Ganesh
Dhaba aane wala hai tayar ho jao’. Then we took our second halt for the yummy
breakfast. We also ordered Aloo Pyaz and Paneer Parathe and chai, it was an awesome
breakfast that we had. We clicked photographs and uploaded them on facebook with
trees and Dhaba in the background. Then we continued our journey , we played
cards and Antakshri. I played another movie ‘Jo jeeta Wohi Sikander’ which is one of my favourites.
Then the villages were about to approach, Bhaiya said ‘Sab apne naak bund kar
lo bahut badboo aayegi’. When villages started approaching we could not feel the
bad stinking smell and we were amazed. Then, we realized that it is because of the
new ‘Ambipur’ facebook.com/AmbiPurIndia which I bought, it was
too good.Then, we reached our
destination at around 12.30 p.m which took us around five hours to reach.

Next day,
Sandeep bhaiya said, ‘Chalo yaar sab Mussorie chaltein hai’. Mussorie is around
100km from Saharanpur and takes about 2 hours to reach. All of us agreed and
everybody thought we will celebrate mom and dad anniversary in mussorie. We were
total thirteen people mom, dad, mama, mami, bhaiya, bhabi, me, mansi and two
cousin brothers with their wives and driver. Another, road trip to mussorie
sounded really exciting. We took two cars Ertiga and i20. Next day, everybody
wished Mom and Dad. Mom, dad, mama and mami took i20 with driver and we all
eight were in Ertiga. We started off around 10’o clock in the morning. We eight
played rummy and watched movie in the car, snack and cold drinks it was a real
fun we had. We reached mussoorie at around 12.30 p.m and papa said ‘Ady ek AmbiPur
hamari gaadi mein bhi laga deta itni badboo thi raastein mein’ I smiled. We
took a 3-star hotel and at night we celebrated mom and dad’s anniversary with
dinner and cake. We took photographs uploaded them on facebook. Next day, after
seeing mussorie we left in the evening at around 6’o clock and by 8.30 p.m we were
back at mama’s place. We were so tired that we ordered food from outside had
our dinner and slept as we had to leave tomorrow morning for Delhi. The next
day we packed our bags to leave for Delhi. Mami ji prepared besan ke bread pakore
for our lunch. We left at 12 noon from Saharanpur and reached Delhi at 6 in the
evening. This was really a perfect and memorable road trip with family after a
long time. ‘Happy Anniversery’ Mom
and Dad.